Sunday, November 25, 2018

Recipes For Disaster

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Contrary to popular belief, a recipe can be copyrighted. The copyrightable part is not the factual list of ingredients, nor is it the inform...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

Is the Internet Revolutionary?

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Happy American Thanksgiving! Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column discusses whether the Internet qualifies as "revolutionary"...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Targeting A Readership Part 13 - Motivating Your Readers by Jacqueline Lichtenberg

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Targeting A Readership Part 13 Motivating Your Readers by Jacqueline Lichtenberg  Previous Parts Indexed Here: https://aliendjin...
Sunday, November 18, 2018

An "Alice In Wonderland" World.

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Cyber "space" is in Iceland. Iceland is also home to the Dark Web. Or so "they" say. https://musictechpolicy....
Thursday, November 15, 2018

Casting Our Vote(s)

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Let us give thanks that this election cycle has ended, and we'll have a short rest from the acrimonious politicking. (Maybe. It seems th...
Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Worldbuilding For Science Fiction Romance Part 3 - Body And Soul

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Worldbuilding For Science Fiction Romance Part 3 Body And Soul  Previous parts in Worldbuilding for Science Fiction Romance are: P...
Sunday, November 11, 2018

Real People And Temptation

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Increasingly, authors are responsible in every sense for advertising and promoting their own works. Also, most people carry a camera with th...
Thursday, November 08, 2018

Value of Backstory?

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I recently got around to watching the Star Wars movie SOLO. On an e-mail list I subscribe to, someone asserted that it was a mistake to prod...
Tuesday, November 06, 2018

Theme-Dialogue Integration Part 4 Theme Stated

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Theme-Dialogue Integration Part 4 Theme Stated  Previous posts in this series: What's Eating Him? http://aliendjinnromances.bl...
Sunday, November 04, 2018

Red Flag Knowledge, Copyright FAQs, And Can STMs Save Copyright?

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The DMCA was intended by Congress to be a cutting edge tool to combat piracy. It has turned out to be a blunt tool indeed, given that ISPs ...
Thursday, November 01, 2018

Reflections on Alien Visitors

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The November-December issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER contains three articles about UFOs and extraterrestrials. "UFO Identification Proc...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Theme-Dialogue Integration - Part 3 - Romantic Emotional Intelligence

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Theme-Dialogue Integration Part 3 Romantic Emotional Intelligence Previous Parts in Theme-Dialogue Integration What's Eating Hi...
Saturday, October 27, 2018

The Law And Unintended Consequences

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This weekend is the twentieth anniversary  (china!) of the signing of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).  As for me, I mentally awa...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Cosmic Times and Distances

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This video compresses the total history of the universe and Earth into a single monologue of less than twenty minutes: History of the Ent...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Theme-Character Integration Part 15 - Building A Bully Character From Theme

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Theme-Character Integration Part 15 Building A Bully Character From Theme Previous Parts of the Theme-Character Integration Series ar...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Breakdown of Copyright (or not)

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Legal bloggers Chantal Bertosa , Victoria E. Carrington , and Ashley Doumouchel writing for the law firm Aventum IP Law LLP share their d...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

AI Rights

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Here's an article on the PBS website exploring the issue of what might happen if artificial intelligences were granted the status of leg...